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that it was caused by a small fish and that I could buy this fish 

 in the bazaar near our conipoi.nd. 



The darkness of the nig-ht, and the salt water caused the 

 track which our boat left behind to look like lire, and also the 

 fish escaping- before us left big stripes of fire in the water. 



30. — I went to the bazaar and asked for the fish, which had 

 produced the strang-e sound underneath our boat yesterday, but 

 there was not one to be had. The people however promised to 

 try and find one for me. 



End of Volume xy 

 End of Journey. 



